Main entry: fastidious
Definition: giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
Usage: a fastidious and incisive intellect; fastidious about personal cleanliness
Antonyms: unfastidious
Definition: marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to detail; not concerned with cleanliness
Antonyms: general
Definition: a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)
Antonyms: universal, universal proposition
Definition: (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class
Definition: offensive or even (of persons) malicious
Main entry: fastidious, exacting
Definition: having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
Usage: fastidious microorganisms; certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements
Antonyms: unfastidious
Definition: not exacting in nutritional requirements